Rabbie Burns wasn’t a nationalist!

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“Stop the world – Scotland wants to get on!” The now famous cry of Winnie Ewing when she won Hamilton for the SNP in a 1967 Westminster by-election. Yet greater scrutiny of the various proposals mooted in the independence debate shows that far from being catalysts to propel Scotland on to the world stage and wrench it from the shackles of its over bearing larger neighbour, all options proposed will leave Scotland marginalised, ignored and forgotten. The message from the Nationalists is now clear – “Stop the world – Scotland wants to get off!”